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- From: desmedt@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl
- Subject: Re: Frisian; Germanic Dialtects (was: Welche Sprache benutzen)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.155517.1@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl>
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- Organization: Leiden University Faculty of Social Sciences
- References: <1992Jul21.173259.242@public.sub.org> <1992Jul24.083243.25862@coli.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:55:17 +0100
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- > ...
- > Frisian is as much like any Celtic language as is, for example, Russian or
- > Sanskrit! It is a Germanic language!
- >
- > I didn't know it is also spoken in Schleswig-Holstein; I know a Dutchman who
- > was raised bilingual Dutch/Frisian, so it must be spoken somewhere in the
- > Netherlands too. Unfortunately I don't know what part of the Netherlands he
- > comes from.
- >
- > Julia Simon
-
- Frisian ('Fries') is spoken in Friesland, a northern province of the
- Netherlands.
-